The Senate approved the bill to continue and increase warrantless surveillance of everyone.

The exclusion of masses of poor from making a living by working is leading to reconsideration of the role of work in life.

In a world with too many children, taking care of them is a lot of effort — it is work. The (mainly) women who do this feel their work is undervalued, since they are either unpaid (for caring for their own children) or badly paid (when it is child-care business). The reason it is so much effort is partly due to the high birth rate and the large existing population.

If there were fewer children, so the total effort needed were much less, maybe plenty of people would be glad for the chance to play with children, show children how to do things, even take care of some children for a few hours once a week. Maybe it would be fun rather than work.

Special advertising agents pay journalists and bloggers to mention specific products and companies.

For me, product placement in movies is a form of corruption. It is equally corrupt in print.

I will never do this in my writing, but I can't tell whether it has happened in the articles I link to.

How could it make sense to require people to graduate high school to go to barbering school?

How could it make sense not to offer a shortcut for someone who already knows how to do the job to skip most of the schooling?

How could it be just to impose a heavy fine for barbering without a license, on the first complaint?

How could it be just for a court to issue a fine and not appoint a lawyer to represent the person that might be fined?

The Church of England is concerned that if Down's syndrome is completely eliminated, existing people with Down's syndrome might feel hurt that no more people will be like them.

This made me aware that the polio eradication campaign threatens a similar problem. If we complete the campaign, people with polio will eventually disappear. Good heavens! Should we stop the campaign?

There are people with congenital deafness that object to the idea of preventing or curing congenital deafness. Their culture, which they have developed to cope with deafness, would be lost of it nobody needed to cope with deafness any more.

If you want to be deaf, I think you should have that right. (We should not allow you the right to have a polio infection, because that would expose others to the risk of contagion.) But you are not entitled to impose deafness, or polio, or Down's syndrome, on anyone else.